Envirothon Teachers
Here are additional materials for the 2008 Teacher Training on SOIL at the Envirothon. These further links to information will help make teaching about soil informative and fun!
- Study soil at Penn State!
- Other degree programs in the Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
- Mary Kay Lupton: Urban and Ag Best Management Practices
- BMP PowerPoint handout
- BMP Exercise
- ARS’s Quest To Improve the Chesapeake Bay
- Conservation Tillage Has Immediate Benefits
- Testing Poultry Litter for No-Till Farming
- Drought Survival With Conservation Tillage
- Beyond the Pond
- Research Notes, Testing Poultry Litter for No-Till Farming
- Beneficial practices which conserve soil quality
- Best Management Practices: Land Application of Animal Manure
- Patrick Drohan: Soil formation and landscape evolution
- Drohan handout on soils and geomorphology
- How to make a large soil monolith (Carleton College)
- How to make a mini-monolith
- A safe fixative can be made by mixing warm water with Elmers glue. Use a ratio of 5 parts water to 1 part glue for sandy soils and 10 parts water to 1 part glue for clayey soils.
- Sarah Ogden: Composting: the inside dirt on decomposition.
- Handout exercises on buffering capacity and water holding capacity
- Gary Petersen: Pennsylvania soil issues: housing, on-site wastewater disposal, ridge-top recharge
- Ridge and Valley Soils PowerPoint presentation
Your Instructors
- Mary Kay Lupton and Dr. Ray Bryant (USDA-ARS): Urban and Ag Best Management Practices
- Dr. Patrick Drohan (Penn State Dept. Crop and Soil Sciences): Soil formation and landscape evolution
- Sarah Ogden (Penn State Dept. Crop and Soil Sciences): Composting: the inside dirt on decomposition.
- Dr. Gary Petersen (Penn State Dept. Crop and Soil Sciences): Pennsylvania soil issues: housing, on-site wastewater disposal, ridge-top recharge
